Axis History Forum

This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day.
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Hi John,
Your 3-axle truck with trailer is Skoda workshop with full designation 6ST6L-APD-R, a special order for Rumanian army (that's why the "R" is at the designation end), depending of the purpose they were fitted with different equipment and may tow a single- or two-axle trailer.
The workshops on the same chassis used by the Czech army, and later by the Wehrmacht too, were externally different, their trailers also. They were designated simply 6ST6L-APD (APD = mobile field workshop in Czech).
Of course the vehicles were named on the company founder Emil Skoda but probably you'll like to hear also that in Czech "skoda" means "pity".
HTH
Cheers!

"...and on the 8th day He made truck so that man, made on 7th day, had shelter when woman threw him out for the night."

Many thanks for your responses, Sturm78 and Ilfil. Every morning when I look out of our front room windows, I see my neighbour's two Skodas parked outside his house. (Both are cars not trucks though...)

Hello all,
Please can someone tell me the Kfz number and purpose of this Protze? I think that the side has a part of the canvas cover hanging over the wheel arch and that the weapon protruding is a MG13.
Thank you,
Kerry.

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to the two pics of the Büssing-NAG truck from 09 February:
it cannot be the type 550, because the truck on Your pics has only four flaps (as far as I can see) on the motor hood. The type 550 had five flaps, because of the engine FD 6. So it could be the type 502, the predecessor of the type 550 with a GD 6 engine and four flaps.